Opelika Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is state political climate at 1.8/10. Food insecurity runs 32.8% against 17.8% nationally.

SNAP participation runs 29.6% against 15.2% nationally. Running cool, eviction-process difficulty reads 2/10.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 2.2/10. It sits 0.7 points above the Lee County average of 3.9. At $838 a month, rents run 12% under what the rest of Opelika commands.

That is riskier than roughly 53% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 17% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 48% of renters.

Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $41,554.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.